New parking plan for Northwest Portland to add meters, permits

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PORTLAND, Ore. – After years of disagreement over how to manage parking in bustling Northwest Portland, city councilors on Wednesday unveiled a tentative truce.

Under the proposal, the hot spots of Northwest 23rd Avenue and 21st Avenue from Burnside to Vaughn would be metered with a combination of two-hour and four-hour time limits.

Elsewhere in the boundary area – which runs north between Burnside and Vaughn and east from Northwest Cornell Road to 16th Avenue – there would be four-hour time limits, some without meters. Northwest Portland residents, however, could be able to get permits that would exempt them from time limits, among other exceptions.